Thank-you notes with Button Buddies and Out on a Limb stamps

I like to include a note of thanks with my club members' orders each month. I used some Cheery Treats dsp and the Button Buddies stamp set above, as well as Brights buttons, white twine and a sentiment from Trendy Trees.

Below, I used the Out on the Limb stamp set, along with some strips of Frightful Sight dsp I had leftover from a recent project. The sentiment is from Petite Pairs.

One more CASE'd club card - The Open Sea...

I always have club members and customers say they can't come up with original stamping ideas, and that they're not "crafty." So this month, I'm showing my club members that they don't need to be creative. After all, you just need to copy well. *smile* 

This fabulous card with The Open Sea stamp set comes from Ann Schach. The colors are Not Quite Navy, Cherry Cobbler and Chocolate Chip. I generally followed Ann's ideas, though there are several minor changes (no jumbo eyelet, a brad instead of a pearl, different sentiment - mine is from Trendy Trees), and different card stock layer on Not Quite Navy card. I think it's fun to copy cards because everyone has their own unique perspective. See the two other CASE'd club cards in the two posts below this one.

Pearl's Trendy Trees make & take...

I love the clean lines of Pearl's make & take.


It starts with a Whisper White card that's been punched on the right with the Scallop Border Punch. A strip of Old Olive was then adhered to the inside of the card.


The Tangerine Tango layer was run through the Elegant Bouquet embossing folder for the Big Shot, then stamped with the sentiment using a marker and Stamp-a-ma-jig. We added three chocolate chip jumbo brads.


We used the Stamp-a-ma-jig again to line up the trees, then layered them on Not Quite Navy and adhered that to the Tangerine Tango layer. The finishing touch was a short piece of Old Olive grosgrain tied with linen thread and stuck on with a mini glue dot.

Flower Fancy Sweet Pea card...

All three of this month's club cards were inspired by other demonstrators. You don't have to be a creative genius to enjoy stamping - copying and sharing is the name of the game!

This Whisper White card features a couple patterns of paper from the Sweet Pea pad in the Occasions Mini, so it's only available till next week.

We used the Eyelet Border Punch on the top layer, and used a saying from the Trendy Trees stamp set (20% off thru April 30) inked in Tempting Turquoise for the bottom Barely Banana layer.

The main flower image comes from Flower Fancy (20% off thru April 30 also). We stamped it in Tempting Turqoise on Barely Banana card stock, cut it out and added punched Pumpkin Pie and Barely Banana flowers (Boho Blossom Punch) with a fire circle rhinestone holding them all together. The flower was adhered with dimensionals over the stamped and cut-out leaves.

I'm leaving for the Stampin' Up! cruise to the Southern Caribbean tonight. If you'd like to order anything from the Occasions Mini, or one of the four, 2-step stamp sets on sale for 20% off, or anything from the Clearance Rack, visit my website at http://TheRubberRoom.stampinup.net to view all of these and to place your order by 10 p.m. on Friday, April 30, 2010.

Thanks!